Jerusalem
Walls · Holy sites · 1187
The city at the heart of the war — its gates, quarters and shrines reconstructed from period accounts.
Sources: Imad ad-Din al-Isfahani; Itinerarium Peregrinorum; pilgrim itineraries, 12th c.
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The city at the heart of the war — its gates, quarters and shrines reconstructed from period accounts.
The great port and its two-year siege — moles, towers and camps mapped from both sides of the wall.
The Ayyubid capital — courts, markets and minarets, with the people and politics that moved the war.
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